It's French, it's beige. Am I on the correct forum?

[Yellowperil]

Van is now up and running, i managed to find my petrol can.
I still can't believe I actually ran out of petrol outside my house and not on a dual carriageway.
I am not classing this as a breakdown, once again, user error.

I remember being on an A road in the eighties in my mates Cortina, he ran out of petrol, stuck it in neutral and coasted about half a mile to a petrol station, pulling up next to a free pump. Jammy Bastard.

Anyway, I won't be using the van much, only for shopping and at the weekend when I have Elsie over to stay,
It makes more sense to use the bike for everything else.

[Yellowperil]

A bit of a problem with the "Campovan" yesterday.
I was taking my daughter to a party thirty miles away and a couple of miles into the journey I had to cross one side of the A47 where it is dualled and then turn right onto the carriageway I needed.
A bloody fool bit of road design and thankfully in the next couple of years it is going to be remodelled.

I crossed the first part and then sat in the middle waiting for a gap, traffic was a little busy but ok.
A gap appeared and I gave it enough revs to actually cause the tyre to chirp and rattle the grill pan.
Seconds later I lost most of my revs, not a good moment with cars bearing down on me, even dipping the clutch and revving the engine had no effect. I pulled over to the left as far as I could and the engine stalled.
I started it again and it fired right up, but wouldn't rev, after a few minutes I was able to get some revs and managed to limp a hundred yards to a junction and onto a single track road.
I kangarood down that looking for a place to pull over and investigate.
When I stopped and looked under the bonnet nothing was amiss, the distributor cap was ok, none of the leads were loose, there were no pipes adrift anywhere and the fuel filter had fuel in it.
After trying for a few minutes with Elsie sobbing her heart out in the passenger seat because I had told her she would miss her party, I decided to see if I could limp home. So I pulled away and a hundred yards later it started running normally.
I found myself back at the A47 so decided to go for it and see what happened, apart from a bit of a misfire two minutes later which I cured by dipping the clutch and revving it, it ran as well as it has ever done.
Party was achieved and all in all it has done about eighty miles and is running fine.
What the fuck was that all about?

[Hooli]

Spot of dirt in the carb at a guess

[Yellowperil]

Probably, I hope so anyway, because I can't consider it a fix if I don't know what was wrong with it in the first place.

That would be consistent with it happening after I had dumped the clutch and pulled away quite violently, although the fuel filter itself looked clean.

[DodgeRover]

Bit of water in the float bowl and the lurch caused it to pick up?

[Yellowperil]

Van is still running perfectly, except it doesn't want to tick over now.

[Hooli]

Sounds like time to clean the carb

[Yellowperil]

Not this late at night...

[Yellowperil]

Van is still running fine and it has now decided it does want to tick over.
When I left for work this morning it kept cutting out on tickover, then it just cured itself.
I did have to adjust the alternator belt when I got home today as the little red light was flickering.
It didn't show up any fault codes though...

[LynehamHerc]

Just be grateful it's not a T2.
You'd have had at least 3 engine fires by now according to the experts on here.